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Difficulty: Hard
Guides: No external guides.
Access: Anywhere your powers can take you.
Duties: Blood is fuel. Drain brains and complete your objectives.

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Mindflayers are IPCs who bonded with a swarm of nanomachines. The swarm posesses the power to extract and use the brain-energy from sapient beings. They are antagonists who actively seek out crewmembers and drain them for the goal of strenghtening themselves and completing their objectives. Their powers can be inhibited by a Nanite Pacifier implant, which can be ordered at any Nanotrasen supply department, and the presence of a swarm can be revealed by feeding an IPC who has extracted brain-energy `Conductive lube`.

Beginning assimilation

As a mindflayer, you drain the brainwaves of victims which you convert into usable swarms. These can be used to unlock new abilities or passives, and to upgrade existing ones. You can drain brainwaves from victims by targeting their head on harm intent with an empty hand. After a short time you will start draining their brain. If the victim moves during draining, it is interrupted. For the best effect you should stun them with your swarmprod and cuff them. If you do not have access to cuffs, grabbing them with a neckgrab is another option.

You start with two abilities (apart from your upgrade menu). A swarmprod and "Quick reboot". Quick reboot clears all stuns and heals you for a small amount. Upgrading this ability reduces the cooldown, increases the duration and the healing per second received. Swarmprod is a stunprod which you can extend from your arm. It stuns people on hit, and immediately knocks them down. It recharches on its own. Upgrading this ability increases the rate at which it recharges.

Abilities are divided into a few categories. Passives, and the subclasses. Passives are all always available for purchase. Subclasses only have a few abilities available however. These are subdivided into stages. If you buy an ability from the highest stage you can purchase, you unlock the next stage. Every subclass has an ultimate ability in the final stage, called a "Capstone". This ranges from immortality for a short time to draining people at tenfold the speed.

Powers

Mindflayer powers are divided into two base categories. Passive and active abilities. Passive abilities are all immediately available for purchase, but the active abilities require an ability of the previous stage to be purchased. Active abilities are divided into subclasses, where at the end there will be a strong ability for purchase. Subclasses can contain passive abilities.

Innate Powers

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Name	Upgrade cost	Cooldown	Description
Swarmprod	100/150	30 Seconds	Has 2 charges. Both charges are needed to stun fully. Can be used to stun targets. Automatically recharges enough for one hit per 40 seconds. Upgrading increases the rate of charge.
Quick Reboot	100/150	30 Seconds	Removes any and all stuns and removes 100 stamina damage. Heals brute, burn. Upgrade reduces cooldown, increases amount of healing, and extends healing time by 2 seconds

Specializations

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Passive Abilities

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Name	Unlock	Upgrade cost	Description
Armored Plating	30	60/90	Increases armor by 5. Upgrades increase armor by another 5.
Fluid Feet	30	60	Mute your footsteps. Upgrade gives noslip.
Internal Faraday Cage	30	60	Resist EMP effects. Upgrade makes you completely immune to EMPs.
Insulated Chassis	30	N/A	Become immune to basic shocks.
Replicating Nanites	50	100/150	Gain a passive repairing effect. Upgrade increases healing by 1 brute and burn per tick.
Enhanced Optical Sensitivity	40	60	Gives you nightvision. Upgrade gives you thermal vision
Swarm Absorption Efficiency	50	100/150	Increases amount of swarms drained per second by 50%. Upgrades increases draining rate by a further 50%
Reinforced Joints	50	N/A	Prevents your limbs from falling off due to damage.
Telescopic Eyes	50	N/A	Allows you to use your eyes as a scope, increasing your viewing range.
Internal Nanite Application	40	80	Slowly repair damage done to your organs. Upgrade doubles the repair rate.

Active Abilities

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Intruder

Name Stage Unlock Upgrade cost Description Enhanced Voice Mod 1 40 N/A Configure your vocal modulator to sound like a different person, and amplify your voice slightly. Camfecting Bug 1 50 65/80/95 Cast on a computer to hack its webcam, then alt-click the spell to access all your hacked cameras. Increase the amount of computers you can hack by 6. Traceroute 2 125 150/175 Cast once to mark a computer, then cast this next to a different computer to recall yourself back to the first. Alt click to check your current mark. Flesh Facsimile 2 80 130/180 Choose someone we see, and rearrange our surface to resemble theirs. Heat Sink 3 75 160/240 Vent the used coolant from our internals to disorient and scald attackers. Silicon Administrative Access 3 150 N/A Charge your hand with a mass of nanites that can hijack the lawsets of cyborgs. Perfect Symbiosis 4 400 N/A Increases amount of swarms drained per second tenfold.

Destroyer

Name Stage Unlock Upgrade cost Description Laser Arm Augmentation 1 75 200/300 Our hand melts away, replaced with the barrel of a laser gun. The internal power cell recharges faster. Pneumatic Flak Gun 1 50 150/225 Our hand melts away, replaced with a makeshift cannon that automatically loads with shrapnel. Reduces the time needed for us to recycle scrap into ammo. Badassery 2 50 N/A Make yourself more badass, allowing you to dual wield guns with no penalty, alongside other benefits. Integrated Grappling Mechanism 2 75 150/225 Shoot out your arm attached to a cable, then drag yourself over to wherever or whoever it hits. Quicksilver Form 2 100 200/300 Transmute your physical form to be much less solid, allowing you to phase through glass and non-solid objects. At level 2, you also deflect projectiles shot at you. Level 3 doubles the duration of the effect. Overclock 3 150 200/250 Put extra strain on your motors to move and attack faster, at the cost of heating up a dangerous amount. Upgrades improve your heat sinks, making you heat up slower. Torque Enhancer 3 75 150/225 Increases the amount of damage you do with unarmed attacks. Upgrades further increase the damage done. T.E.R.M.I.N.A.T.O.R. Form 4 250 300/350 For a short time, you become unable to die or to be slowed down by pain. This will not heal you however, and you will still die when the duration ends if you are damaged enough.

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